1779 in art
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Events from the year 1779 in art.
Events
- April 24 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1779 opens in Pall Mall in London[1]
- August 25 – The Salon of 1779 opens at the Louvre in Paris.[2]
- October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London.
Paintings
- Antoine-François Callet – Portrait of Louis XVI[3]
- Joseph Duplessis – Portrait of the Comte d'Angiviller
- Thomas Gainsborough – Gypsy Encampment, Sunset
- Per Krafft the Elder – Carl Michael Bellman
- Charles Willson Peale – George Washington at Princeton
- Joshua Reynolds
- Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
- Lady Jane Halliday
- Admiral Lord Keppel (National Portrait Gallery, London)
- Dominic Serres
- George Stubbs
- The Labourers[4]
- A Lion and a Tiger
- Mambrino
- François-André Vincent – President Molé Confronted by Insurgents[5]
- Benjamin West
Births
- January 3 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter (died 1819)
- February 20 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (died 1844)
- March 21 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (died 1843)
- April 19 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (died 1852)
- May 27 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassicism painter (died 1860)
- July 8 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (died 1851)
- July 26 – Erik Gustaf Göthe, Swedish sculptor (died 1838)
- August 24 – Charles Norris, English topographical etcher and writer known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside (died 1858)
- November 4 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (died 1853)
- November 5 – Washington Allston, American painter, the "American Titian" (died 1843)[7]
- November 6 – Henry Pierce Bone, English enamel painter (died 1855)
- December 9 – Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (died 1857)
- date unknown
- Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (died 1842)
- Guillaume Descamps, French painter and engraver (died 1858)[8]
- Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (died 1846)
Deaths
- January 26 – Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (born 1701)
- February 4 – John Hamilton Mortimer, English Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and pieces set in Italy and its countryside (born 1740)
- March 14 – Joseph-Charles Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (born 1689)
- April – Károly Bebo, Hungarian sculptor, builder and decorator noted for his stucco work (born 1712)
- June 29 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (born 1728)
- September 14 – Anton Pichler, Austrian goldsmith and engraver (born 1697)
- October – John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (date of birth unknown)[9]
- December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)
References
- ↑ https://chronicle250.com/1779#catalogue
- ↑ Baetjer, Katharine. French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019. p.29
- ↑ https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE007432
- ↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-labourers-131997
- ↑ https://dia.org/collection/president-mol%C3%A9-confronted-insurgents/64291
- ↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/alfred-the-great-dividing-his-loaf-with-a-pilgrim-306989
- ↑ "Allston, Washington". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75361. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Descamps, Guillaume Désiré Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. - ↑ Eccardt, John Giles (1888). "Eccardt, John Giles". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.